by Sébastien Japrisot · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070406548
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L'été meurtrier is a suspense novel by French author Sébastien Japrisot, published in 1977. The story follows Eliane, a young woman who arrives in a small town and awakens the interest of several men, triggering a series of tragic events. The novel explores themes of desire, revenge, and the dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a seemingly quiet community. With an intricate plot and complex characters, L'été meurtrier is a masterpiece of the crime genre that keeps the reader in suspense until the last page.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
